Urban Design / Design urbain
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A view obstructed: The urban plan as social contract
The Museum of Fine Arts’ (MBAM) newest pavilion, which is to open next September, is topped with a glass-walled lookout over Mount Royal. But a...
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The Mall Comes Crumbling Down
“Une bonne journée j’vas y retourner Avec mon bulldozer Pis l’centre d’achat y vas passer Un mauvais quart d’heure”...
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Une intersection à l’échelle de Montréal
Contribution spéciale. Alexandre Campeau-Vallée travaille en aménagement depuis plus de 5 ans, particulièrement en art urbain et en verdissement. Il...
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Too Big to Love: IPAM’s Citizen’s Agora and the Challenge of Regional Planning
All day yesterday, I looked at this map. For their first Citizen’s Agora, the Institut de politiques alternatives de Montréal went big: they chose...
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Saint-Sauveur needs a saviour
“Sauvons l’église Saint-Sauveur!” I wrote three years ago. And for three years, it seemed vaguely possible that the 145-year-old church on...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Cultural Corridor to channel creative energy into Griffintown
Image: Poetry reading in the Dalhousie Art Space, adjacent to the New City Gas Co. building, Aug 2010. There are rumbles of change in Griffintown. After...
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Losing sight of the highway for the green: Understanding the “new” Turcot plan
Welcome to Portland boul. Notre-Dame In the face of harsh critiques from just about every imaginable governmental and non-governmental body in the...
By Jacob Larsen -
Bergeron out of the Executive Committee
Almost a year after it started, Projet Montréal leader Richard Bergeron’s participation in Montreal’s Executive Committee has come to an end...
By Devin Alfaro -
An unintentional public space
This observation was submitted by Darniel Rotsztain, a student of Urban Geography at McGill University. Read his other articles on Spacing Montreal. The...
By Spacing -
Down to the river to play
« En suivant le fleuve, on parvient à la mer. » – Plaute J’oublie souvent l’existence de notre fleuve ; j’avoue. Et pourtant, il...
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Marché Saint-Jacques slowly coming back to life
Marché Saint-Jacques seen from the corner of Ontario and Amherst. After years of serving as a city office building, the Marché Saint-Jacques is finally...
By Devin Alfaro -
Seville’s Final Spectacle
Demolition of the Seville Theatre began yesterday. This afternoon, I noticed that a small crowd had gathered on the sidewalk – most were older...
By Alanah Heffez